The Day of Eternal Shame

Tuesday, December 7 in the U.S. celebrated 69 anniversary of the attack the Japanese fleet at the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. December 7, 1941, at about 8 am on Hawaiian time, Japanese fighters attacked a military base. The attack resulted in more than 2400 Americans have died, five warships – sunk, and the United States finds itself embroiled in World War II. To “Arizona” died in 1100 seafarers. The ship still lies at the bottom of the harbor. It is a reminder of the day that Franklin Roosevelt, then U.S. president, has called “the day of eternal shame.”
The attack on Pearl Harbor (called the Hawaii Operation or Operation Z by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and the Battle of Pearl Harbor by some Americans) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese aircraft in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers